JP3308911B2 - Video game device and recording medium storing program - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technique effective when applied to display control of an ending screen displayed on a display means of a video game, particularly an adventure game.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An ending screen of this type is generally displayed by clearing a game, and generally displays the role and name of a staff member mainly involved in game production.

[0003]

However, such an ending screen is not directly related to the content of the game, and the player rarely looks at the screen with admire.

The present invention has been made in view of such a point, and an object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of reflecting a game play result on an ending screen in an adventure game.

[0005]

A first means of the present invention is as follows.
In a video game apparatus for displaying a character and an event in which the character appears on a display means, an access means for accessing the character, a timing means for timing the time of the access, and an access time counted by the timing means. Time recording means for sorting and recording the time spent for each character; and ending screen display control means for displaying the character on an ending screen in the sort order of the accessed time recorded by the time recording means. Is a video game device provided with.

[0006] The character means a character other than the player character, and is displayed as a computer graphic image or a photographed image. An event means a conversation, a battle, a search, etc. occurring in a video game. The display means means a display device such as a CRT and a liquid crystal display. Accessing a character means that the player selects a desired character from among a plurality of characters as a character necessary for operating the player character to execute the above-described event. The access time means a time during which the character is selected to execute the event. The access time is measured, and the accumulated value is sorted and recorded for each character. When displaying the ending screen,
Characters are sequentially displayed according to the recorded sorting order.
Here, the sorting method may be a descending order or an ascending order.

[0007] As described above, the order of the characters displayed on the ending screen changes depending on the time during which the player has accessed the character, that is, the characters are displayed in the order of the player's preference. Can be increased.

Note that a message of each character may be displayed together with the display of the character on the ending screen.

[0009] A second means of the present invention is the first means, wherein the access means includes an access number recording means for sorting and recording the number of accesses for each character, and the ending screen display control means comprises: And displaying the characters on an ending screen in the sort order of the access count recorded by the access count recording means.

That is, the order of characters to be displayed on the ending screen is determined based on the number of accesses. This causes a change in the ending screen.

[0011] A third means of the present invention is the first means, wherein said access means includes character changing means for changing said character to a player character, and said time keeping means comprises: The time being changed to the player character by the timer, the time recording means sorts and records the time when the character has been changed to the player character clocked by the time counting means for each character, and the ending screen The display control means is for displaying the characters on the ending screen in the sorting order of the time changed to the player character recorded by the time recording means.

Changing a character to a player character means that the player character is selected from the characters according to the player's preference, and the selected character is changed to the player character. At this time, if the number of player characters is limited, a considerable number of the previous player characters are returned to the non-player characters.

As described above, the order of the characters to be displayed on the ending screen is determined based on the time of being the player character. As a result, the ending screen changes as a result of the player's preference.

In a fourth aspect of the present invention, in a recording medium storing a program for displaying a character and an event in which the character appears on a display means, an access step for accessing the character, A time counting step for counting, a time recording step for sorting and recording the access time counted by the time counting step for each character, and the sorting order of the accessed time recorded by the time recording step. And an ending screen displaying step of displaying the character on an ending screen.

As the recording medium, any recording medium such as a CD-ROM, a game cartridge, a floppy disk, a magnetic disk, a magneto-optical disk, a memory card, etc. can be used. CD-ROM, game cartridge.

[0016]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

[0017]

FIG. 1 shows a state in which a video game apparatus according to the present invention is connected to a video display apparatus 4 (hereinafter, simply referred to as "display 4").

The game machine body 1 is connected to a controller 3 as an external input device, and further has a CD-ROM (not shown) under a CD-ROM drive cover 2a.
mpact Disc-ROM) 2 is provided, and provides a game program and game data.

The display 4 is for providing a display symbol outputted from the game machine body 1 as a display image, and the speaker 5 is for providing a voice symbol to the player as voice. A general household television receiver is used. Can be.

The controller 3 has various operation buttons. A direction key 6 is provided on the left side of the controller 3 when viewed from the plane. On the other hand, on the right side of the controller, a circle button 7, a cross button 8, a square button 9, and a triangle button 10 are arranged. In the center of the controller 3, a start button 11 and a select button 12 are provided.
Is provided. Furthermore, an L1 button 13 is provided on the left side of the controller 3 and an R1 button 14 is provided on the right side of the controller 3.

FIG. 2 is a hardware block diagram mainly showing the game machine 1. CPU for bus 20
(Central Processing Unit)
21, DRAM (Dynamic Random Ac)
cess Memory) 22, MDEC23, GPU
(Graphic Processing Unit)
24 and the like are connected to each other. The CPU 21 has a GTE (Geometric Transfer En).
Gine) 25 is connected.

The MDEC 23 is a processor for reproducing moving images, and develops moving images read from a CD-ROM. The GTE 25 is a processor dedicated to graphics, and is composed of a plurality of arithmetic units that perform parallel processing.
The image data developed by the MDEC 23 is subjected to coordinate conversion, rendering, and the like by parallel processing. In addition, CPU
21 is provided with a clock for generating a clock pulse.

The GPU 24 is a processor dedicated to graphics like the GTE 25, and is responsible for actual drawing such as shading, texture mapping, and raster processing based on the data subjected to coordinate transformation by the GTE 25. The image data obtained as a result is stored in the VRA as a buffer.
The data is sent to an expansion device 27 via an M (Video RAM) 26. The expansion device 27 expands the image data and performs digital-to-analog conversion. The image signal obtained as a result is output as RGB (Red, Green, Blue) signals, and is input to the NTSC encoder 28 as an NTSC video signal. Is output.

A ROM 29 storing a boot program is connected to the bus 20.
0 is CD-DSP (CD-Digital Signa)
lProcessor) 31, CD-ROM decoder 3
2 are connected.

The CD-DSP 31 performs noise filtering. An SRAM (Static RAM) 33 as a buffer and a mechanical controller 34 are connected to the CD-ROM decoder 32, and the decoded image data is sent to the bus 20 and the audio data is sent to the SP.
U (Sound Processing Unit) 3
5 The SPU 35 is a processor in charge of audio processing, and the DRAM 3 as a connected buffer.
6, the audio data decoded by the CD-ROM decoder 32 is decoded, and the audio data obtained as a result is converted into a DAC (Digital Analog Converter).
ter) 37 to perform digital-to-analog conversion and send it out as audio output.

An SIO (Serial) for enabling data to be transmitted bidirectionally with the controller 3 is provided on the bus 20.
l I / O Interface) 38 is connected.

Here, the video game stored in the CD-ROM 2 is an adventure game in which a player operates a player character and stacks conversations with a plurality of non-player characters to solve a mystery of a case.

FIG. 3 shows a functional block diagram of this embodiment. The access unit 41 is a button 7 of the controller 3
Is pressed, the event display control unit 42 is instructed to display an event. In response to the instruction, the event display control unit 4
2 displays the conversation event on the display 4 (see FIG. 7). The access unit 41 receives a press of the direction key 6 and the o button 7 of the controller 3 and selects a conversation partner from the characters displayed on the conversation event screen. The character selected by the selection and the conversation sentence of the character are displayed in the form of options (see FIG. 8). In addition, the timing unit 43 is activated in response to the selection.

The displayed conversation sentence option is selected by pressing the directional key 6 and the o button 7 of the controller 3. The time recording unit 44 includes the event display control unit 42
When the event indicated by is completed, the timer of the timer 43 is read and sorted for each character and recorded.

The ending determination unit 45 receives the notification that the event display control unit 42 has finished displaying the final event, and the ending display control unit 46 that has received the information reads the character sorting order from the time recording unit 44. Character data is read from the character data storage unit 47 for each character in the sort order and displayed on the display (see FIG. 9).

FIG. 7 shows a conversation event displayed on the display 4. From the two displayed characters 71, one is selected as a conversation partner.

FIG. 8 shows the character 71 of the selected conversation partner. The option of the conversation sentence 72 is displayed together with the character, and the player specifies the option to ask the character 71 for a question.

FIG. 9 shows a character 71 displayed on the ending screen. The character image, name, age, and occupation are displayed in the order of the longest access time.

FIG. 4 shows this in a flow chart. That is, when the access unit 41 receives the press of the o button 7 (step 101), the event display control unit 42 displays a conversation event screen (102). The access unit 41 receives the pressing of the direction key 6 and the o button 7 (103), selects a character on the conversation event screen (104), and the timer 43 starts a timer (105). The access unit 41 receives the pressing of the direction key 6 and the o button 7 (106), and selects a conversation sentence of the player character on the conversation event screen (107). When the conversation of the event display control unit 42 ends (108),
The time recording unit 44 reads the timer of the timer 43 (109), sorts and records each character (11).
0).

When the ending determination section 45 determines the ending of the game (121), the ending display control section 46 reads the sort order of each character by the timer of the time recording section 44 (122), and reads the character's character. The data is read (123), and the characters are displayed on the ending screen in the sort order (12).
4).

As described above, according to this embodiment,
The character can be displayed on the ending screen depending on the access time, and interest in the game can be increased.

[0037]

Embodiment 2 In Embodiment 1 described above, the display order on the ending screen is determined based on the access time to the character. However, since the play progresses unevenly depending on the difficulty of each event, the player cannot compare the time. It may happen that it is different from the actual feeling of accessing each character.

In the present embodiment, this is solved by performing the access based on the number of times the character is accessed. This processing is shown in FIG.
This is realized by providing an access count recording unit 48 instead of the clock unit 43 and the time recording unit 44 in the functional block diagram of FIG.

That is, the access unit 41 receives the press of the ボ タ ン button 7 of the controller 3 and
2. Event display is instructed. In response to the instruction, the event display control unit 42 displays the conversation event on the display 4.
Display above. The access unit 41 receives a press of the directional key 6 and the o button 7 of the controller 3 and selects a conversation partner from the characters displayed on the conversation event screen.
The access count recording unit 48 adds the access count of the selected character and sorts and records the characters.

The ending determination unit 45 receives the notification that the event display control unit 42 has finished displaying the final event, and upon receiving the information, the ending display control unit 46 reads the sort order for each character from the access count recording unit 48. The character data is read from the character data storage unit 47 and displayed on the display in the sort order.

This processing is performed by the event display control unit 42 when the access unit 41 receives the press of the o button 7 in the flowchart of FIG. 5 (step 201).
A conversation event screen is displayed on the display 4 (20
2). The access unit 41 includes a direction key 6 and a circle button 7
Is received (203), a character on the conversation event screen is selected (204), and the access count recording unit 48
The number of accesses of the selected character is added, and sorted and recorded for each character (205). Access unit 41
Receives the pressing of the direction key 6 and the o button 7 (20
6) The conversation sentence of the player character on the conversation event screen is selected (207), and the selection of the conversation sentence is repeated until the conversation is completed (208).

When the ending determination section 45 determines the ending of the game (221), the ending display control section 46 reads the order of the access number from the access number recording section 48 (222). The data of the character is read (223), and the character data is displayed on the ending screen in the order of the number of accesses (224).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, by sorting by the number of times of access, the order of characters displayed on the ending screen can be enjoyed as being close to the real feeling.

[0044]

Third Embodiment In the first embodiment, the non-player character is displayed on the ending screen.
In a game in which a player can select from a plurality of player characters, the player characters are sorted according to a selected time, and the player characters are displayed on the ending screen in the sorting order.

This processing is realized by adding a character changing unit 49 in the functional block diagram of FIG.

That is, the access unit 41 receives the press of the select button 8 of the controller 3, and the character change unit 49 displays a character list on the display 4 (see FIG. 10). Further, the access unit 41 receives the press of the L1 button 13 or the R1 button 14 of the controller 3 and the press of the O button 7, and receives the character change unit 49.
Selects a character and changes the character to a player character. Here, the character changing unit 49 activates the clock unit 43.

The access unit 41 instructs the event display control unit 42 to display an event by pressing the o button 7 of the controller 3. The event display control unit 42 displays the conversation event on the display 4. The access unit 41 includes a direction key 6 and a circle button 7 of the controller 3.
Is pressed, a conversation partner is selected from the characters displayed in the conversation event screen. When the event displayed by the event display control unit 42 ends, the time recording unit 44 reads the time measured by the timer 43 and sorts and records the time for each player character.

The ending determination unit 45 receives the notification that the event display control unit 42 has finished displaying the final event, and upon receiving the information, the ending display control unit 46 determines the sort order for each player character from the access count recording unit 48. The data of the player character is read from the reading and character data storage unit 47 and displayed on the display in the order of sorting.

In the processing shown in FIG. 6, the access unit 41 receives the press of the select button 12 (step 301), and the event display control unit 42
Displays a character list (302). The access unit 41 presses the L1 button 13 or the R1 button 14,
The character change unit 49
Selects a character from the character list (30
3), the character is changed to a player character (304). The timer 43 starts a timer (305).

When the access unit 41 receives the press of the o button 7 (306), the event display control unit 42
A conversation event screen is displayed (307). Upon receiving the pressing of the direction key (308), the character of the conversation partner is selected (309), and receiving the pressing of the direction key 6 and the o button 7 (310), the conversation of the player character is selected (311). When the ending determination unit 45 determines the end of the conversation (312), the time recording unit 44
The timer 3 is read (313) and sorted and recorded for each player character (314).

When the ending determination section 45 determines the ending of the game (321), the ending display control section 46 reads the sort order of each player character from the time recording section 44 (322). Further, the player character data is read (323) and displayed on the ending screen in the sort order (324).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the interest in the game can be raised by displaying the player characters on the ending screen in the order of access.

[0053]

According to the present invention, the play result can be reflected on the ending screen displayed on the display means of the video game, especially the adventure game, and the playability can be enhanced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which a video game device of the present invention is connected to a video display device.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration centered on a game machine main body.

FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram for explaining the embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining an embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining an embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining an embodiment.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a conversation event screen.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a conversation event screen.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram for explaining an ending screen.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a player character selection screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Game machine main body 2a CD-ROM drive cover 3 Controller 4 Display 5 Speaker 6 Direction key group 7 ○ button 8 × button 9 □ button 10 △ button 11 Start button 12 Select button 13 L1 button 14 R1 button 71 Character 72 Player character conversation Statement 73 Player Character Candidate

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Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A video game device for displaying a character and an event in which the character appears on a display means, an access means for accessing the character, a time measuring means for measuring a time of the access,
A time recording unit that sorts and records the time accessed by the time counting unit for each character; and an ending screen for displaying the characters in the sort order of the accessed time recorded by the time recording unit. A video game device comprising: an ending screen display control means for displaying the ending screen. 2. A video game apparatus for displaying a character and an event in which the character appears on a display means, an access means for accessing the character, and an access number recording means for sorting and recording the number of accesses for each character. And a ending screen display control means for displaying the characters on an ending screen in the sort order of the access count recorded by the access count recording means. 3. A video game device for displaying a character and an event in which the character appears on a display means, an access means for accessing the character, a character changing means for changing the character to a player character, and Timer means for measuring the time that has been changed to the player character by the character changing means; and time recording means for sorting and recording the time that the character has been changed to the player character that has been timed by the clock means for each character. And a ending screen display control means for displaying the characters on the ending screen in the sorting order of the times changed to the player characters recorded by the time recording means. The 4. A video game apparatus for displaying on display means the appearance event of the character and the character, access means for accessing the character, counting means for counting the access to have time, to the clock means <br Time recording means for sorting and recording the time accessed by the user for each character, and the time recording
The sort order of time has been the access which has been recorded by means ending screen display control means for displaying the character ending screen, recorded video game device readable recording medium a program for functioning as.